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Legal Questions Surround PE-Backed Noble Health
Two rural Missouri hospitals remain closed as a slew of lawsuits and state and federal investigations grind forward.
March 24, 2023
No More PE Hospital Purchases in Pennsylvania, Lawmakers Urge
The package of bills would also prohibit owners from taking out dividends within two years of an acquisition and limit a type of financing known as sale-leaseback transactions on hospitals’ real estate.
March 24, 2023
PE Owners of Nursing Homes Face Disclosure Demand in U.S. Bill
The Healthcare Ownership Transparency Act, which failed to move out of committee when introduced last year, would compel firms to list investors, debt, fees collected, and performance details.
March 24, 2023
Healthcare Sector Challenges are Driving $70M in New Budget Requests, Says FTC
“Substantial merger activity and signs of market concentration and related competition concerns have dramatically increased the pressure on staffing resources in recent years,” the commission said.
March 23, 2023
CMS Ruling Paves Way for Virtual Reality Companies to Obtain Reimbursement from Payers
AppliedVR now holds the distinction of being the first company to make an immersive therapeutic to be included in an existing benefit category. And because Medicare now covers the platform, other payers may follow suit.
March 23, 2023
MedPAC in no Rush to Recommend Major Hospital Medicare Payment Increases Despite Industry Pleas
In an accompanying letter to Congress, MedPAC Chair Michael Chernew, Ph.D., said “the Commission is acutely aware of how providers’ financial status and patterns of Medicare spending varied in 2020 and 2021 from historical trends, as well as the higher and more volatile increases in input costs for several health care sectors that occurred during 2022.”
March 22, 2023
DOJ, State Attorneys General Drop Appeal to UnitedHealth-Change Healthcare Deal Ruling
In a filing with the court, attorneys representing the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) as well as Minnesota and New York agreed to voluntarily dismiss their challenge to the $13 billion deal.
March 22, 2023
US Senator Warren Urges FTC to Review CVS-Oak Street Deals
The Oak Street deal was CVS' third largest deal in the last decade.
March 22, 2023
Arkansas Hospitals Hit with Eight Lawsuits Over Cyberattacks
Mena (Ark.) Regional Health System and Nashville, Ark.-based Howard Memorial Hospital are being sued for data breaches that affected 84,814 people in late 2021 and 53,668 patients in late 2022, respectively.
March 21, 2023
As Demand for Travel Nurses Drops, States Debate Payment Caps
Proposed regulations come after demand for travel nurses surged to unprecedented levels during the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
March 20, 2023